Weather-strip.



W. M. THOM PSON.

WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 8. 1914.

Patented June 15, 1915.

'HE NURRISPETERS CO-, FHOTU'LITHQ, WASH/"GRIN, D. v

. 4O door opening as the casemay be, and whlch WILLIAM M. THOMPSON, OF NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO.

WEATHER-STRIP.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1915.

Application filed October 8, 1914. Serial No. 865,730.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. THOMP- soN, citizen of the United States, residing at New Philadelphia, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Strips, of which the following is a specification. r

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in weather strips and more particularly to an improved device of this character especially adapted to inclose the ends of clapboards or siding abutting a window or door opening, the invention having as its primary object to provide a weather strip which may be readily formed from a single strip of suitable sheet metal and which when in position, will effectually exclude the elements from entering between the abutting ends of the siding or clapboards and the door jamb or window casing as the case may be.

A further object of the invention is to provide a' weather strip of the above described character which will resiliently engage the ends of the clapboards or siding and, in the instance where the strip is used upon a window, will engage between contiguous clapboards at the bottom of the window, to thus maintain the strip in position, and will also engage beneath the window-sill at the ends thereof to provide a tight joint between the sill and the adjacent members or clapboards forming the structure to which the device is applied. And a still further object of the invention is to provide a weather strip which will extend the entire length of a window or door opening upon either side thereof to embrace the ends of the members abutting the window or will be held in'position without the necessity of the use of nails or other fastenin devices. I

With these and other objects in view, my

- invention will be more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and

then specifically pointed out in the claims which are attached to and form a part of this application.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a view'particularly' illustrating the application of my improved weather strip, a window being conventionally illustrated with one side portion of the casing as well as the window-sill removed; this view also showing one of the weather strips removed, F g; 2 1s a fragmentary detail perspective view particularly illustrating the disposition of the tongue disposed to close the strip at one end or at the base, and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front elevation illustrating my improved strip applied with the window casing and sill in position.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters. Referring more particularly to the drawmgs, my improved weather strip includes a body portion 10 which is in the form of a channeled member having a wall 11 from which extend sides 12, the said sides extending throughout the entire length of the membielrland being normally substantially para e.

The body portion 10 of the strip is preferably formed from a single piece of suitable resilient sheet metal and at one end, one of the side walls 12 is provided with a longitudinally extending tongue 13 which is bent upon itself transversely in alinement with the adjacent extremity of the wall 11 inwardly to substantially close the adjacent end of the member.

As best illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the tongue 13 is of a length to extend transversely upon one side of the body portion 10 and adjacent its free end, the said tongue is bent transversely in alinement with the contiguous extremity of the adjacent side wall 12 to provide an outwardly and downwardly projecting terminal 14.

For convenience, I have illustrated in the drawings, my improved strip applied to the ends of sidings or clapboards abutting a window opening wherein the said boards are conventionally illustrated at 15. However, in thus showing this adaptation of the invention, I do not wish to be limited thereto as my improved strip may be applied to the ends of boards or other members in a door opening or in any other adaptation where the construction which I provide will meet the demands existing.

As illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, my improved strip is disposed to extend the entire height of the window opening so that but a single strip is required upon each side of the window opening to inclose or emends with the side walls 12 bearing against opposite side faces of the members 15 and with the wall 11 abutting the ends thereof. In thus fitting the strip upon the ends of the members 15 abutting the window opening, the tongue 13 is disposed to rest upon the member conventionally shown at 16 and extending transversely of the window opening at the bottom, and the saidtongue is inserted to engage between the meeting edges of the member 16 and the adjacent member 15 at the contiguous extremity thereof, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. By this arrangement, a more secure engagement is bad between the strip and the members 15 and 16, the tongue 13 being thus disposed to prevent any movement of the strip longitudinally of the window opening upon the ends of the members 15 abutting the said opening while a tight joint is obtained such as will exclude the elements between the strip and the said member at the bottom of the window opening and at the corners thereof. It will be observed that the free extremity of the tongue 13 is dis posed to extend laterally of'the outer face of the structure formed by the members 15 and '16 and in this connection, it is further to be noted that in the manufacture of my improved strips, the said strips will be provided in pairs, one strip of each pair being disposed to fit upon one side of the window opening to embrace the ends of the members 15 abutting the said opening while the other member of each of said pairs will be disposed to fit upon the opposite side of the said opening, the difierence in construction as between the members of each pair being that the tongue 13 will be formed upon opposite side walls thereof. It will thus be seen that the strip which I provide will form an even and uninterrupted joint between theends of the members 15 abutting the window opening and the window casing, and will also form a similar joint by the tongue 13 between the window-sill and the members 15 at the extremities of said sill. After having arranged the strips in positionas heretofore described, the windowsill conventionallyshown at 17 is arranged within the window opening to seat upon the member 16as'will be readily understood, with the extremities 18 of the said sill seating upon the terminals 14: of the said strips as best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing. Owing tothe inclination of the said termifurthermore to be noted that the shoulders- 19 provided by the reduced extremities 18 of the window-sill will abut the adjacent longitudinal edges of the tongues 13 to thus form a tight joint between said shoulders.

and the said tongues to thus "further pre vent any possibility of moisture gaining e11: trance between said tongues and the window-sill. The sill 17 having been applied, the window casingconventionally shown at 20, is then arranged in position to rest at one end, upon the sill 17 and to'embrace the side walls 12 ofthegstrips arranged exteriorly of the window." openingand the walls 11 ofthe said strips as'shown in 3 of the drawings; Consequently, the window casing 20 will bear throughout the entire length of its portion engaging thestrips snugly against'the strips to provide a come pact joint, and it" is to be noted that the said casing will entirelyhide said strips so that'their presencewill be unobserved in the completed structure.

It will therefore be seen that I provide a 1 very simple and efficient construction of weather strip which may be readily formed from a single piece ofsuitable sheet metal and whichis disposed to extend throughout the entire height of a window to embrace all ofthe ends of the members abutting the window opening to provide a tight and weather proof joint between the said members and the window casing.- It will further be seen that the 'said'stripis also disposed to direct moisture away from thewindowsill at the extremities thereof and beneath the sill, and will form a tight joint between the said sill and the structure at the ex tremities of the sill. 1

Having thus described my invention,

what I claim and desire tosecu re by Letters Patent is V I V 1. A weather strip including a channel member having resilient side walls and having a transversely extending tongue formed 7 on one extremity of one of :said walls, the said tongue substantially closing the adjacent. end ofthe member. V

2. A weather strip including a channel member having substantially parallel side walls and having a transversely extending tongue formed on one extremity of one of sald walls, the stud tongue extending 1n spaced relation to the adjacent end edge of the opposite side wall of the member and being free at its outer extremity.

3. A weather strip including a body portion having side walls, there being a tongue formed on one of said walls at one extremity thereof, the said tongue extending in spaced relation beneath the adjacent extremity of the opposite side wall and being provided with an obliquely directed terminal.

4. A weather strip including a body portion having side walls, there being a resilient tongue formed on one of said walls at one extremity thereof, the said tongue substantially closing the adjacent extremity of the body portion and being provided with an outwardly and downwardly sloping terminal at its outer end.

5. A weather strip including a channel member having resilient side walls disposed to frictionally embrace the adjacent ends of members abutting a window opening upon one side thereof, there being a transversely extending tongue formed on one of said walls at one extremity thereof, the said tongue being disposed to engage between the meeting edges of the said members at the bottom of the window opening to project laterally upon one side and exteriorly of the said members, the said laterally directed portion of the tongue being obliquely directed to engage beneath the adjacent extremity of a window-sill arranged within the said window opening.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a weather strip formed from a single piece of resilient sheet metal and including a channel member having side walls, one of said walls being extended at one extremity thereof to provide a tongue arranged to extend across the adjacent extremity of the said member and transversely of the opposite side wall thereof, the said tongue being transversely bent adjacent its free extremity in substantial alinement with the contiguous side wall of the member to provide an outwardly and downwardly sloping terminal.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM M. THOMPSON. [L- 8.] Witnesses:

JOHN S. GRAHAM, JOHN C. THOMAS.

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